Thank You Cathy & Welcome Sue
Maybe it is because she’s a dedicated grow-your-own enthusiast, or maybe because she loves animals, but a quick check through The Forum archives (yes our very own Betchworth WhatsApp channel) confirms that Cathy Honey is the village lost dog heroine. It seems that her allotment by the burial ground is the perfect place to spot strays. But Cathy is an unsung heroine in other ways too, not least as the volunteer who set up the Re-Betchworth Website www.re-betchworth.org in early 2021 and has maintained it ever since.
As with so many others who first ‘surfaced’ on The Forum during the initial 2020 lockdown, Cathy, with husband Gary and son James (a Brockham Badgers regular), had lived quietly in the village since 2002. She works for the charity Tearfund in the Internal Comms Team, and when Re-B appealed for help she stepped forward to offer her considerable skills and experience to build a web-based resource to underpin our actions and mission. Cathy has done a tremendous job in giving us a presence on the internet that we are proud of and provides an abundance of useful resources. The whole Re-B team is indebted to her for that and we all wanted to take this opportunity to say a great big thank you as she takes a step back to focus more fully on her ageing mother.
Maybe it is because she’s a dedicated grow-your-own enthusiast, or maybe because she loves animals, but a quick check through The Forum archives (yes our very own Betchworth WhatsApp channel) confirms that Cathy Honey is the village lost dog heroine. It seems that her allotment by the burial ground is the perfect place to spot strays. But Cathy is an unsung heroine in other ways too, not least as the volunteer who set up the Re-Betchworth Website www.re-betchworth.org in early 2021 and has maintained it ever since.
As with so many others who first ‘surfaced’ on The Forum during the initial 2020 lockdown, Cathy, with husband Gary and son James (a Brockham Badgers regular), had lived quietly in the village since 2002. She works for the charity Tearfund in the Internal Comms Team, and when Re-B appealed for help she stepped forward to offer her considerable skills and experience to build a web-based resource to underpin our actions and mission. Cathy has done a tremendous job in giving us a presence on the internet that we are proud of and provides an abundance of useful resources. The whole Re-B team is indebted to her for that and we all wanted to take this opportunity to say a great big thank you as she takes a step back to focus more fully on her ageing mother.
As we start our third year of voluntary work we are now a formally constituted charity, and the ways we communicate have multiplied - as witnessed by this e-magazine, our biodiversity website and our Tube nature movies. So it makes sense to re-think our website in the context of our other communication channels and we are delighted that Sue Chamberlain has stepped up to take over from Cathy and lead this work. Watch this space!